1 I . THE DAILY BEE. B. ROSEWATBR : EDITOR : It h an ill wind that blows nobody good. The creat April duo of 1881 hat effectually demonstrated that Dilbnville is not a eafe place for permanent building of any discription. MAJOR GENERAL POPE has arrived at Washington and Immediately went Into secret session with the secretary of war. Is it pcssible that Pope con templates another brilliant campaign wtth headquarters in the i addle ? IT was very lucky that the mam moth Dillcmrillo elevator was not bnilt last winter. It wonld have floated down the Mieeonri and prob ably jhave been landed high and dry on the Nebraska shore somewhere be low PlatttnKtith THE Oi-u icil BlotTs Nonpareil hsu Digged back on Governor Gear. Thn Governor made a sad and unpardona ble blunder when ho appointed Judge McDill to the Kirkwoodvacancy in place of Marshall Ch rmin is to be honored bv President Garfield with a Doeition up on the court of claims a tribnnal next in importance to the national supreme court. This position will , we learr , be tendered shortly to Hon.r Clinton. Briggs , one nf the most dis tinguished jurists in the west. This appointment will to heartily approved by the people of this state , whoso es teem and conGdonco Judge Briggs enjoys in an eminent degree. ' I THE Pennsylvania legislature Is devising stringent measures te prevent the consolidations of competing of telegraph lines. A bill passed the Pennsylvania senate last week em bodying the principles laid down by Jere Black that the state in granting charters to railway and telegraph cor porations , and authorizing them to condemn property by exercising the power of emintnt domain , these cor porations do not acquire Tested rights or absolute titles to the lands over which they pass. The bill In question 'provides when" any telegraph company , owning and controlling a tolepraph line in 'the f state shall consolidite with any'other company , owning and controlling a competing telegraph line , the compet ing telegraph line and all franchises and property connected therewith for the operation of the same within this state "fahall be * forfeited to and become Mhe property of the Commonwealth. Whenever any auch corporation , etc. , ownIng - Ing and controlling A-line of telegraph shall hold a controlling interest in the stock or bond * of any other telegraph corporation , etc , owning a competing line of telegraph , or shall acquire by purchase or otherwise any other corn- pot'ng ' line .of telegraph , the stock and bonds so held and the telegraph line , together with all franchises so purchased - chased or otherwise acquired , shall be forfeited to and become the property of the common wealth. Any holder oF stock or bonds of any such telegraph - tpnnp irhn ha\L \ hav fceian up- posed to Tthe-ccmsolidatio Tritb or aale to 'the 1 : competing . com pany , and shall not have assented thereto or acquiesced therein , shall be entitled to such.pro-rata sbara of the proceeds of the Bale of the telegraph properly as his bonds shall bear to the whole amouut outstanding ; bat in I < t'no cnse toexced the * par y&lne of his | bands and accrntd interest thereon. No competing lines ate allowed to purchase any of the escheated prop erty. erty.This This bill after a moat protracted .struggle passed the ssuatu by a rote of 27 to 10 , and it is confidently pre dicted will p-es the lower house by a large majority. * OMIIIA has h.ia n ordinance npon her municipal statutes'that prohibits the construction of frame buildings within certain limits , This erdinance J 1 is practically a dead letter. Daring the past year a number of frame ( , J houses -have been reconstructed and eularcG'i ; tinder boxes have been relocated within the fira limit , sham brick buildings , with four-inch walls plastered ngninst lumber frames , are beings-erected our principal thoroughfares with reckless disregard for the public safety. No complaint has boon made in our police court against such fhgrant violations of the pirit as wpll as the letter of the , fire limit ordinance. It is not tD be expected that private citizens , and especially business men , will a wear oat warrants against violator of the fire ordinance. They natural ly shrink from any act that would involve them in a fend with Anybody. The city-marshal and police have la mentably failed to'enforco the fire or- dlnance.mainly because other duties requijojjUjthoirjigilanceand.acUvfeJ ty. Meantime Omaha continues exposed - | posed to a terrible conflagration isnd our merchants < and home owners are compelled to pay tor this risk in hgh ! Insurance rates. This state of affairs demands prompt attention at the hands of our new council. The fire limit ordinance should be reconstructed. } The building of four- ' nch brick tinder - boxes should be absolutely prohibited. Every person. . .that , , proposes to erect & building ot , anjr , kind within ' in the 'fire UrmiJ"houldj ba re quired to procure a building permit. Such permit''should only.be granted npon presentation- , building plans , and no departure from such plans in essential particular , should be allowed. The chiefofthe -fire department should be required to act a firemarJ ahal. 'It ' should be m * dej ltdnty. ! to. inspect all the buildings-erected-with E in the city limits , and whenever any defective chimney ia found jie should - > order it rebuilt , and if the owner failed to comply -with Hia orders "he should | r enter complaint in the police court Toe fire marshal ehould also be espe cially charged with preventing , the , erection of , buildings within the fire limits for which a punch had not been granted. Other measures lookt ing to the same end should be devised n and adopted from tima to time. b THE IOWA sEtf A'TOKBHIP. The senatorial contest in Iowa has I fairly > begun. The leading papers of the Hawkeye etata are ranging them selves around their favorite candidates and a brisk lueilade has been opened all along the skirmish line. So far as we can observe from our distant and disinterested standpoint the contest la being ; waged by the per sonal partisans of each candidate , mainly with a view to a division of political spoils. No man has as yet planted himself on a platform of fixed principles , and no candidate has an nounced his -views upon the living Is- aues of the day and especially the relations of the people toward the railway monopolies. The so-called leading organ of the republican party , the Des - Moinei Rtgifttr , owned and edited by an out- 1a and-out raiiroader , has thrown out'j into the eyes of Iowa farmers by I preaching a crusade agaiait the barb pT wire monopoly , while it is paving the way for the railroad monopolies to capture the next legislature , and with itC , the next senator. The Davenport Gazette , a paper tint has upon every other Issue pursued a straightforward - forward course , has become the outspoken champion of James T. Wilson , whe in congress and out of congress has been the most prominent monopoly capper in all Iowa. The Gazette in its leading editorial on the senatorial issue expresses implicit confidence that James T. Wilson will be the almost unanimous choice of the general assembly next winter. I In support of this convic tion we are told that such a result ought to bo reached in the In- terest of the otate and nation. State and nation , "indeed I Has the interests of Jay Gonld and other monopolists become the Interest of the state of Iowa and the American republic ? Whose interest did Jim Wilson repre sent in congreai when the Credit Mo- biller job was put up ? Whose inter est did he represent aa government director of the Union Pacific railroad , when he played Into the hands of the highwaymen that constructed that road. Why did Wilson represent the Union and Central Pacific railroads In the lobby against the Thurman act to compel these monopolies to pay the Interest on their debt ? And why did Wilson act as the chief counsellor of this giant monopoly before the Su preme court when the validity of the Thurman act was being tested ] We are amazed that reputable pa pers lika the Davenport Gasettc should commend for senator a man who of all others has been the most faithless and mercenary public man Iowa has produced. It strikes us that the time has come when Iowa should no longer be content to be represented in con' ' gress by men who are mere spoils dis tributors and patronage brokers. The successor of Governor Kirk- wood ought to be a statesman whose past record is a guaranty of unflinch ing fidelity to the mass cf his constit uency. The great body of the people of Iowa are farmers and they ought to be represented in the United States senate by a man who will legislate in tlie Interest of the producer. It Is an insult to the intelligence of the people ple of Iowa to aay that only corpora Ion attorneys and monopoly henchmen have therlght to aspire to a seat in the United States senate. Although the re publican press of Iowa has exhibited lamentable short-sightedness < , in ignor ing ] thtfpreat issue bet ween , corporate monopolies and the people , ' they can not resist'the tide , that fa sweeping the country from-the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific .coast. " " This icaua will , we confidently "believe ; enter into the senatorial contest inIowa _ within the next ninety days. J - : has in His mind's eye the Ideal newspaper for Omaha , a paper ! < hit trill devote Its editorial columns to .sermons and temperance lecture < f and-r refuse'to-publish any advertisements except ' -church and funeral j .notices , charity , faira and free lectures. . Such a paper edited by . gentlemen , who'wear'whitachokers and esrn their -living as Sunday , ' School teachers would according' to Mr. Sherrill help the exiiUng papers , and on this point * we agree with him. I Such a . paper ' would demonstrate In very abort time that a larg < T majority of the Omahorribles relisH sensational accounts of some boarding house scrape _ o a church scandal with a good deal more zest than th'ey do Henry Ward Beecher'a Srery.latest effort to'raise the standard of morality In Brooklyn. TOM SCOTT , who has retired from I the presidency of the Pennsylvania railroad on acconnt of mental over work , is in no immediate danger of dying in the poor house. According to reliable accounts poor Tom ia worth from twenty to thirty millions. An * other striking commentary upon the transportation . tjueitlon. Millions up on million * wrung from the producers of this country by extortion discrimi nation nd stock jobbing fcr the per- itonaXbenefit of one man. < -r new mayor of Philadelphia , who " was elected by the ring-smaih- ors , "announced in his inaugural ad- drees-that it would bo his purpose'to free the city from a partisan pollc , a "worthy example fcr mayors who were not elected by "rlng-inawhers" to imitate. [ Ohlcago Tribune. The new mayor of Omaha who wai elected both aa a "ring-smasher" and "slate-smasher" will emulate the ex ample let Sy the mayor of Philadel- phia. , . Looking at the Voorhees-Mahone altercation in .the senate. The Detroit Tribune sees irfrom a Shakepearean pointLof"vision , thu ly : M h neto V rh-is. Doytm Jjite your thumb at me , air ? 5 ? ' D-S-s aside to V rh a. If you say you bite your thumb at him , it will be unlawful ; he frill hare the rnles on you. V rh a. No , air ; I do not bite my thumb at yon ; but I bite my thumb. M fi HB Then , sir , you do not tl „ bite a clean thumb. b Y rh s. Then I do bite my al thumb &t you ! Look you , sir , I bite ni my noee off at you ! Sde th , sir , I yi bite my head off at youl Whoop , sir , tl I open my mouth and put my footjlo at you. ( They glare at eac ? other. ) B n H H to Y rh-s. What ! art thou hurt ? Y rh a. I am spread. la he gone , and hath nothing ? My month is as deep as a well and as wide as a barn door. Ask for me to-morrow , an' you shall find I have swallowed myself. PERSONALITIES. Whittaker la going to lecture. He that hath eara to hear let him hear. Gail Hamilton cures her corns with a poultice of soft aoap and cranber ries. ries.Private Private Dalzall wants to be Com missioner of Patents. He haa filled his caveat , and it is therefore a case of "patent applied for. " If "Vborhees and Mahone decide on a I gunning match , the former should be allowed to uie a telescope sight. ' Brignoli says that he ia not Emma Abbott's off night tenor , and that she does not prefer Castle to him. He is angry with a Utica critic who said I that he ate garlic and that he could not as Romeo climb to Juliet's balcony without a derrick. It .nakes very little difference to us whether Sitting Bull or the men' ' who aend dispatches about him who ' surrenders. All we want la to see full justice done. Those border correspondents must be if it respondents suppressed " " i takes the whole army to do It. , John Bolts , of California , said to Henry Green , "I will live to spit on your gravel" Green sued for dam ages , and the jury regarded his feel ings hurt just 2 cents' worth. His grave will ba kept Green whether spit on or not. There la a picturesque story tola concerning Secretary Kirkwood and a person of high civil rank in Wash ington upon whom he once called. The Iowa senator , who waa personally unknown to the official , waited hta I turn. After dismissing the several callers with such answers as their business required , the great man slow ly 1t 1 < turned his office chair , and looking the ! senator over from crown to sole , said , coolly : "Well , my man. what can I do for you ? Yon look aa though you would be most at homo on a farml" Water Boute of Transportation. Divenport Register. As at no previous period , the at tention nf sagacious men , who are concerned in the solution of the cheap transportation question , is being di rected to the advisability and necessi ty of a more thorough extension , im provement and use of water routea of transportation from the interior to the sea-board. Several causes have co-operated to this end. The failure of the great trunk lines of railroad , between the east and the west , to provide adequate facilities to move the vast crops of the grain-producing state to the Atlantic ports they moat reach in order to secure a re munerative market , may be cited at one of these. la this fact has been demonstrated , it wonld seem certain , the futility of a reliance upon the rail roads alone. If the mammoth corpo rations controlling the great east and west lines cannoc famish the cars 0.0- ceasary to move the crops , then , of course , reaort must be had to other modes of transportation. Another reason is to be found , doubtless , in the greatly awakened fear of consoll- dat'on ' and pooling regime npon which all the larger railroad com panies have fully entered. It ia clearly seen that the vast com binations thus resulting cannot fail to be injurious to the interests of the producer and shipper. The effect of ihe advances in freight tariffs and the multitudinous fo4rma of discrimina tion to which the public are so fre quently subjected , in Cdnsequence of these united efforts of railroad mana gers , must be met by the opening up of other transportation lines. Yet , another reason , and doubtless , the moat potential , after all , has now become forcibly operative. This is , the demonstrated cheapness of freight transportation by water. The steadily increasing use of the Erie and the Welland canals in the east , and the recently awakened activity of grain shipments on the Mississippi , by the barge linea to New Orleans , have furnished a mass of ata- tistical'facts ia that direction which cannot be gainsaid. Hence , we find that at the recent meeting of the New York produce exchange , held on the 5th ins t. , n series of resclutiona were unanimously adopted declara tive of the absolute duty of the New York state government to devote in creased attention to the development of the Erie canal system to its full ca pacity. The firat two of thoae reso lutions were a * follows : RESOLVED , That the wonderful growth of the state of New York in the past In population , in foreign and domestic commerce and in material wealth , by reason of which she bears the unchallenged title of "Empire State , " .has been largely due to 'the wise and far-seeing policy which con structed her system of internal water ways connecting the chain of lakes with the navigable waters of the Hud son , and that , to this policy more than to any other cause , if not to all other causes combined , ia due also the permanent position which the city of New York holds as the commercial metropolis of the United States : RESOLVED , That the position here tofore held by the city and state of New York is in serious jeopardy and cannot be much longer retained without prompt and vigorous action , ae rival seaboard cities , by herculean efforts , by the lavish use of capital , and by an availing of all resources of engineering skill , have gone far to wards neutralizing the geographical advantages of our state and toward wresting from us traffic in products of the great west. Canada in 0B pur suance of an enlightened public policy and by vast expenditures , has nearly completed the improvement of the Welland canal , which will bo ready for operation in a few months , and last , though not least , the Mississippi and New Orleans route comes up as one of our moat formidable competi tors. tors.Then Then followed a third resolve affirm ing the duty of New York City to be one of advance and aggressiveness "in connection with her water ways , " to the end that "cheaper and better facilities" may be afforded for trans- portation. The next resolution de clares in faver of the adoption of the pending amendment to the state con stitution , so that the state will no longer ba restricted in expenditures upon canals to the amount received therefrom for tolls ; this being accom panied by a demand for a further en is largement of the existing canals. Then , the concluding resolve affirmed it to be the true policy of the state to favor and provide for free canals , to the end that the produce floated npon the great lakes may reach tide-water at New York , instead of being drawn off to the Welland Canal and BO to the ports of the dominion. All this is particularly noticeable in connection with the effort being en tered npon to secure a completion of of the line of water communication be tween the Upper Mississippi river and , New York , -via the lakes. Th t through route lacks completion only because a sufficient degree of public attention has not been given to the all needed construction of the few miles yet wanted to connect Chicago with the MhaittippL Any one who will once take the pains to examine the map of Illinois will BBS that that yet un closed gap la one which should no longer have existence. It is to re- more that gap to extend the present Illinois and Michigan Canal system from Hennepin to the Mississippi that the construction of the Heuna- pin-Rock Island canal is demanded. Thus , the friends of that enterprise are simply clasping hands with the New York Produce Exchange in ask ing that there shall indeed be an all water route of transportation direct from the Upper Mississippi to the Hndson and New York harbor. Modern Highway Robbery. Chicago Tribune. Mr. Leland Stanford , the autocrat of the Central Pacific railroad , would do better to content himself with hoarding his $40,000,000 of fortune , accumulated from construction pro fits , watered stock , and extortions from the public , rather than seek ad ditional notoriety by public attempts to justify the highway robbery in which he and his associates have been indulging during the past fifteen years. The term "highway robbery" is used adviaedly , for the highest courts in the land have declared the railroads to be ' public highways , and the extor tions of which the Pacific railroad managers have been convicted are just at much & species of robbery aa that committed by Jack Sheppard or Dick Turpin in former times. The public must "stand and deliver" before it can travel the highway , built by govern ment money and credit , that runa be tween Omaha and San Francisco. The amount exacted is gauged , as are the ransoms demanded by banditti , ac cording to the ability of the victims cctc pay. Leland Stanford is one of those audacious highwaymen who are not satisfied with extortion , but desire to advertise their exploits before the world and glorify their professional achievements. In the latter effort Mr Stanford is not nearly so successful a * he has been inextortinga huge fortune from that portion of the American people who have been compelled to pay him tribute and furnish him a fortune that wonld amaze even Oioajus himself. The scoring which the transporta tlon committee of the New York , Chamber of Commerce have recently given to Leland ntantord in reply to the letter he wrote justifying his career and that of his associates in the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads la a fitting supple ment to the indictment prepared by Mr. Daggett , member of congress from Nevada , which the author waa not permitted to deliver in the house of representatives , but which was printed in The Con gressional Record of February 27 * last. Mr. Diggett then demonstrated that the vast property of these two cor porations , owned in the main by Stan ford , Hnntington , Hopkins , and Crocker , represents $302,363,592 of stock and $115,806,683 of bonds , and that the actual investment of the cap Itallsts w&a not more than $12,500. These gentleman paid taxea on less than $150,000 In the aggregate when they went into railroad business , and to-day their railroad property alone is worth , over and ab&ve all the real and fictitious Indebtedness , more than 186 millions. They have t&r years been compelling the public to piy them 8 per cent dividends on the vast Amount of bogus stock which did not cost them one dollar , and 6 per cent inter est on bonds which were issued to represent extensions of roads that was really built out of earnings over and above the 8 per cent , divi dends. These extortions are made up not merely from the outrageous through rates that are charged upon freight to the Pacific corat and by means of added extortions and discriminations against interior points. The practice ia to charge on freight billed to a town in Nevada not merely the through rate to San Francisco or Sacramento which Is tliesamethongh there is a difference of 140 miles in distance but to add to those rates the additional and doublv-exorbitant local rates back from San Francisco to the interior point of shipment. A single ina'ance will tllustrate the prac tice : Reno ia 306 miles east of San Francisco , and hence that much near er New York. The shipment nf a car-load of coal-oil from New York to San Francisco costs $300 , but from New York to Reno the charge ia $536 , because the through rate to San Fran cisco ia charged and then $236 are added as the local chargea from San Francisco to Rmo. It is by such means that Laland Stanford has been able to accumulate a fortune of $40 > 000,000 to $50,000,000 within fifteen years , and his associates in like pro portion. There Is no other govern ment ou earth that would Ulerate like practices. It ia well enough to expose and de nounce the Stanfords , Goulds , Hunt- ingtona , Yanderbilta , and the rest , but there is no hope of reform in this course alone. These men are callous to all kinda of denunciation. They are not-to be reached by any sugges tion of shame or any consideration of sympathy or justice. They are ready to defend the spoils they hare already seized , and to justify a continuation of their highway robbery in the fu ture. The blame for the condition of thinga which they have been permit ted to establish must rest upon the people themselves. The only effect ive and enduring remedy is to be sought from the government. But the government in this country ia a gov ernment of the people. Men are elected to the state legislatures and to the national congress to enact laws for the protection of the people. The courts have held that it is com petent for each state to supervise end regulate the management of railroads within its own boundary. By a parity b of reasoning , it is equally competent for the United States government to tlb tlol regulate railways that traverse two or ol more states. Indeed , the constitution ole' e' tion gives express authority to con- e'it grots to regulate commerce "among , it the different states. " In the case of | the Pacific railroads , the vary legisla nb tive acta that brought them into exis nb tence reserved the right to congress b to repeal , alter , or amend whenever ol it should become necessary to take olCl measures for the protection of the Cla public agalnat extortion and abuse. Why has nothing been done in this cir cifi direction ? Why has it been im fi possible to secure at the handa of congress a single measure of rellei ? Why is it that the Reagan bill , which once passed the house , waa allowed to die in the senate ? Why ia it that Judge Heagaa was never again able to put his bill npon its passage in the house ? Why is it that every measure of relief which'is proposed in congress ruled out of order , amended to its death talked down and , defeated by a resort to all the devices of legislative avoidance ? "There ia something to rotten In Denmark. " Congress has been temporizing with the American people in this mat ter. The corporations have too i a _ many attorneys and tools in the' ' national legislature. The time baa come when the people must assert their representatives. The members the present congress whether representatives - resentatives or senators who wish to save themselves in public life will be ed prepared next.December to assist , and ' " not to retard' , "the project of national is regulation of inter state railways with the experience , resources , and ability which they can command. The men who take sides against the people in this issue , eltherly openly SJ or covertly , will ba marked for defeat and disgrace. The "highway robbery" of our time must be punished and put down. NEW YORK CITY'S GROWTH. ITS AHAZINO DEVELOPMENT DURING THE PAST SIXTY YEARS. New Yoik Telcpam. Within aixty yeara New York has grown from a thriving seaport town to be one of the largest cities in the world in point of wealth , size , popula tion and commercial importance. London and' Paris have taken centu ries to achieve the position they now hold. New "Sork , commencing her rapid career of growth in 1820 , has sprung suddenly to the front in a little over half a century. The opening of the Erie canal and the construction link by link , of the leading railroads , which gave It communication with the great lakes and the valleya of the Ohio and the Mississippi , initiate thejperiod of New York's imperial growth. Its progress at ojce became more raipd. If the shade of Peter Stuvyesant , erstwhile of New Amsterdam , could suddenly take a look to day at the city that has sprung from the little zerm of a metropolis which he in the flesh regarded as a place of marvelous proper dimensions and Importance , the doughty old hero would stand aghiat. The folhwing table conveys such an idea of the growth of the city during the aixty years just past as cau be githsiod from a presentation of the number of its inhabitants and the value of its real and personal estates for each decade from 1820 to 1880 , In- elusive : Retl Fencnil Yeir Population. Estate. Estate. 1323 123,000 S 67,502,313 3 29 594,160 ISiO. 20iO B7.G58E80 7 084,933 HiO 31',870 1S7.221.7K (5.0H.S ( 1 18 0. 515,547 207,142,576 78,919.240 ISO. 8UiH 398,5H , < 19 173,01) ,037 137J. DI22Q1 742103.075 0525,374 1S81 1,200,590 942,571,690 201,191,037 From 1870 to 1880 the population of Neiv York increased 264,298 , or about 28 per cent. London lies on both sides of the Thames , Paris on both aides of the Seine. In compar ing the population of those capitals with that of this city we should take in both sides of the North and East rivers. Looking upon New York , Brooklyn and Jersey City as one vast center of population , we have a met ropolis of 1,884,007 souls , thus : N < r York _ 1,206,590 Brooklyn 6CO,69S Jertcjr City 120,7i8 Toul , 1,594,007 Rigid accuracy cannot be claimed for the census returns of population. The time of the year in which the enumeration ia mada is not the best for ascertaining the trao number of inhabitants. This circumstances ope rates strongly against New York and other large cities. Thus , the census is begun at a time Juno 1 when many people are already in the coun try and after the exodus to Europe haa set in. Thoae who have made this subject A study claim that the popula tion of New York at this present wri ting ia over 1,250,000 and that the ncgregate population of Now York , Brooklyn , Williamsburg and Jersey City exceeds 2,000,000. If these es timates are correct this metropolis , in point of aizo , cornea immediately after London and contains the second larg est agglomeration of population in the world. This city has grown with a rapidity hitherto unknown in any of the great centers of population. New York has probably in the Immediate future ten years of prosperity auch na it has not seen in the past. We may saiely assume an increase in population of thirty-throe and a third per cent , dur ing thb coming decade ; nor ia there any reason why the increase should not be equally great during the ten years next following. Thla would ! { ivo Nevr York , Brooklyn and Jersey Sity an agrrgato populationof 2CCG- 000 in 1890 and of 3,655,000 in the year 1900. That this city will during the next fifty or aixty years become the great center of commerce and finance for the whole world seems tolerably certain. Who shall say to what imperial proportions New York may have grown when , In the remote future , Macauley'a much overworked New Zeal.mdera standing on a pile of Weatmlnster bridge , gazes npon the ruins of London and Benders what manner of people lived and worked among those ruin * . Pullman's Poorly Paid Porters. The Pullman car porters about to Inaugurate a "strike , " not for "fifty cents ail around , " but for increased pay. If the Pullman company is war ranted , it no doubt wonld be best to pay their porters good and living and have the "fee" wages systtm dis continued. The company would make many frlenda if they would not allow their porters under any circumstances to receive perquisites or fees , and oblige them to give the same atten tions without them. The following restrictions rather prove the portera are not overpaid. They are re quired to buy two snils of clothes a year , at from S20 to $25 per suit , and the division su perintendent directs them where r- buy. They are also required to puto chaae two caps , a auramur and a n in ter cap , at $2 50 each. If they lose a key it costs them 55. For every piece of linen they lose they have to pay the following prices : Pillow slips , 50 cents each ; sheets , SI.50 each ; towels , 25 cents each , Locka on all the cars are the same , and the porter is held responsible for all the linen. Portera are all paid § 15 per month. When a porter fills two posi tions ( a light run ) , that of conductor and porter , he is paid $50 per month. If they collect a berth ticket and lose it they pay 50 rents Ctfndensed Benefit. The way people now use the great beverage beer It would be supposed that each glass thereof is brimful of benefit ; it may be. But there ia an other liquid of national reputation , every bottle of which ia filled with immeasurable benefit to such aa need its services. Mr. Edward A. Ii"en- ney , supenatendaat of the Boston beer brewery , Boston , Mats. , thns speaks ] of it : "I distributed several bottles of St. Jacobs Oil among those of my men subject to severe pains caused by exposure to beat and cold , and ; they report that it never fails to cure them. I can therefore aafely recommend < it to all partiea Buffering from pains of any kind. " Woman's True Friend. A friend in need is a friend indeed. This none can deny especially when assistmcq ia rendered when one is sorely afflicted with disease , more par ticularly thoae complaints and weak nesses eo common to our female pop ulation. Every women should know that Electric Bitters are woman's true friend , and wili positively restore her health , even when all other reme- diea fail. t A single trial will always prove our assertion. They are pleas ant to the taste and onlv cost 50 centa bottle. Sold by lah & McMa- hon. { (1) ( ) EacKien's Arnica Salve The BEST SAIVE in the world foi Cuts , Bruises , Sores , Ulcers , Salt U Rheum , pever Sores , Tetter , Chapp Hands , Chilblains , Corns , and all kinds cf Skin Eruptions. Thla Salve guaranteed to give perfect satlafac- tlod In every case or money re funded , Price 25 cents per box. For sale by 8dly Ish & McMahon Omaha. of 7n week 12a d y at borne easily made ; eaih licntflt tree-Addresa True' * Co.Portlnd.il CftiH FOR RHEUMATISM , Neuralgia , Sciatica , Lumbago , Backache , Soreness of the Chest , Goui , Quinsy , Sore Throat , Swell ings and Sprains , Burns and Z Scalds , General Bodily Pains , Tooth , Ear and Headache , Frosted Feat and Ears , and ail other Pains and Aches. Kc Preparation on earth * qua ! ST. JACOBS OIL as a * nfe , sure , slniplf and chtap Eitrrnil Remedy. A trial entails but the comparmlirelj trifling outlay of 50 Ccnti , and erery oca luffer- tng with-pain can haye cheap and poiltlre orocf of Itaclalmi. rJA " Direction ! In Eleven Languagei. i SOLD BY AIL DRUGGISTS AND DEALIB8 IN MEDICINE. A. VOGELER & CO. , Baltimore.Md. , V. a.JL. Geo. P. Bemis HEAL ESTATE AGEKCY. ICth d : Douglai Sts. , Omaha , Neb. This agency doea SIRIOILT a brokerage bujl nesa. Does notdpecnlate , aud therefore any ai- gslna on Its books are tnsnied to Its patrona , In stead ot bela ? gobbled up by the aticnt BOGGS & HILL. REAL ESTATE BROKERS No 1408 Farnham Strut OMAHA - NEBRASKA. Office North Side opp Grand Central Hotel. Nebraska Land Agency. DAViS & SHYDER , 1505 Farnham St. Omaha , JVe&r. d 00,000 ACRES carefully selected land In Eutera Holraaka for galo. Great Bargains In Improved firms , and Oman ) dty props rt- . O. F. DAVIS. WEBSTER SNTDKB , Late Land Com'r U. P. B. R -ieb7tf BTRON RKSD. LIWIS RIID. Byron Reed & Do , , OLDECT EETABLISTD EEAL ESTATE AGENCY IN NEBRASKA. Keep a complete abstract ol title to all Keal Estate In Omaha and Douglas County. mayltl $2.250.000 ROYAL HAVANA LOTTERY. EXTRAORDINARY DRAWING , APRIL 12th. 15000 TICKETS ONLY , 7 2 PRIZES. SMALLEST PHIZE , Sl.COO. 1 Priza 81.0CO.OOO 1 Prize $25,001 I I'rize 200.0CO SPr zcs$10 , 00cach SO.OOQ 1 Prize 100.000 8 Prizes , 6,000 ea h 40,000 1 Prize 0,000 722rrize3am'fgtoS2,2SO,000 Whole Tickets , S1CO ; Halves , S:0 , Quarters , &JO ; TenthsS16 ; Twentieths , ? 3 , Fortieths , Si. L tile Havana ia governed entirely or the above draninr. 1 Pnza , $6COO 722 Prizes , $10,110. Whole ) , { 2. Ualvesl. . ROMAN & CO. Successor to TAYLOR & Co. , New fork. Direct ill c minuiu atlons and money to ROMAN & CO. , Genera ) Agents , 233 Ch j.el Stret > , ew H.ncii. onn. mUilm Machine Works , J. Hammond , Prop. & Manager , The moat thorough appoints 1 > "d complete Machine Shops and foundry In the etsts. Castings of every description mannfacted. Engines , Pumps and every clasa of machinery made to order. order.pecial attention given to Well Augurs , Pulleys , Hangers , ShaftinRtBridge IronsGcer Catting , etc flanstornew Machlnory.Meachanlcal Draught ag , liodola , etc. , iiaitlv executed. 58 Harnev St. . Bet. 14th ntl 16th. ill. II. KISDON , cncral Eusuruuec A ntt , PHffiNU ASaGlwv - _ - - . . J Lon. don , Caah Assets . ; 5,107lt ) VESICHEdTEU. N. Y. , Capital . l.COO.OO THE MERCHAN T3 , cf Newark. N. J. , LOOC.OO OIRARrt FIRKPhiladelphlaCapttil. . 1,00,001 - NORTHWESTERh NATIONAL.Cap- Ital . WC.UK FIREMEN'S FUND , California . 800 CO- BRITISH AMERICA AS8UR&NCECO 1,200,000 NEWA IK FIRE INS. CO. , Asaats. . . . SoO.OOO AUKRICAF CENTRAL , Araeta . 300 iOC < ? art Cor of Fifteenth & Donelaa St. 1U4TTi V'-T PASSENGER ACCOMMODATION LINE BETWEEN OMAHA AND FORTOMAHA Connects With Street Cars Corner of SATJNDERS and HAMILTON - STREETS. ( End of Red Line as fellows : - LEAVE OUAIIA : 030 , ' 8:17 : and ll:10a m ,3:03 : , BS7and7.-28p.m. : LEAVE FOKT OMAHA : 7:16 a m. . 9:15 : a. m. , and 12:15 p. m. 4:00 : , 6:15 and 8:15 : p. m The 8:17 : a. m run , leaving omana > and the 1:00 : p. m run , leaving Fort Omaha , are usually loaded to full capacity with regular passengers. The 0:17 : a. m. run will be made from the post- office , corner of Dod e and 15th snrehta. Tickets can I > o procured from street cardriv- era , o r from drivers cf batto. FARE. 25 CENTS. INCLUDING STRE OAR BUSINESS COLLEGE , THE GREAT WESTERN Gco.R. ttathbnn , Principal. n b' Oreighton Block , - OMAHA | i Send for Circular. " I. T K MERCHANT TAILOR , Has just received hlaSprinsr Stock , and has5J ! patterns to select frem. Call early and ( ? etyour choice. Cleaning and repairing of all kinds. One Door West of Drnlckahanfe's. ep Oly CHARLES RIEWE , Uetallc Caeea , Coffina , Caeketa , Sbrouda , etc. Farn m Strea . OthandlltfalOm haNebl Tal JflTil" i- ! ' irnnntlir tl n1fl4 to. GEO. tt. PARSELL , M.D.I 8 Rooms In Jacobs Block , up atiirg , corner ol Capital Avenue and 15th street. Residence 1425 Sherram Avenus. May "e consult ed at resi icnco 7 to D p m. except Wednesday ! . SPECIALTY Obstetrics an I Diseases of Wo- men. Office hours 9 to 11 a. m. and 2 to 4 p. m. unu a S to 7 D. m ml6m JDsTOTICE , Any on * [ bavin ; ; dead animals I will remove him free of charge. Leave ordera southeast corn r of Barney and llth St. , second door. CH.BRIES SPLITT. a n rnr < tfl'IR ' t day at nome. sinii < t wor 11 _ > U I U&U frre Aridrea * Rtlenon A Co I Portland VP NEW HARNESS SHOP. Thennlerii/ned having had nine years ex- nl perience with G H. & J. S. Collin' , and twentyI I ul fourj ears of practical harness mil leg , lag now commen ed famines * for hlms.'lf in th large new shop l door south ot the sou'heist ' corner llth nod Harnej bt * . He n\l \ employ a large ores of skilled workmen and will fill all orders In his pllne promptly and cheaply. I Ol K. BANKING HOUSES. THE OLDEST ESTABLISHED. IN NEBRASKA. CALDWEL HAMILTONICO Basinets transacted same aa that o an luc r- panted Bank. Accounts kept In Currency or gold subject to light check without notice. Certificates of deposit based parable In throe , lU and twelve months , bearing interest , or on demand without Interest. Advances made to customers on approved se curities at market rates of Interest Buy and sell gold , bills of exchange Gcvern meut , StateCounty anil City Bonds. Draw Bight Drafts on Encland , Ireland , Scotland - land , and all parts of Europe. Sail European Panage Tickets. ROLLEGTIONS PROMPTLY MADE. U ldt ldtTJ. TJ. S. DEPOSITORY. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF OMAffA. Cor. IStfc and Parnham Streets , OLDEST BANKING ESTABLISHMENT IN OMAHA. ( SUCCESSORS TO KODNTZE BKOS. , ) ISTABU3HED 15 1S & Organlud u a National Bank. Capital and Profits OverS300,000 Specially Authorized by the secretary cr Treasury to receive Subscription to the U. S. 4 PER CENT. FUHDED LOAN. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS Kcrarzi , Prttident. AuouBTca Kotmizi , Vice President. H. W. Yirza. CttbJer. A. J. POPPHTOK , Attorney. Jona A. Cri'ianroa. F. H. DATIO , Thlj bank recelvea deposit without regard to amounts. Issues time certificates bai/lng Interest. Draws drafts en San Erznclgco and principal cities of the United States , al j London , Dublin , Edinburgh and the principal dtlej of the conti nent of Europe. Bella passage tlcketa for Emigrants in the In. man ne. m. yldtf HOTELS THE JRIGINAL. Oor. Randolph St. & 5th Ave. , CHICAGO ILL. PRICES REDUCED TO $2.00 AND S2.50 PER DAY Located in the business centre , convenient to places nf amusement. EWantly furnished , containing all modern improvements , panaenger elevator , &c. J. H. CU1IMIKOS , Proprietor , ocletf Cor. MARKET ST. & BROADWAY onncil P.IuUs , Iowa ; On line o Street Kailnay , Omnlbui'o and from all trains. RATES Parlor floor , $3.00 per day ; second floor , 32.50 per day ; third floor , 3..CO. The beat furnished anJ most commodious house In the fitv. GEO. T. PHELP3 Prop FRONTIER HOTEL , Laramie , Wyoming. The miner's resort , good accommodations , arge sample room , char.-ca reasonable. Special attention given to traveling men. 11-tf H a BILLIARD Proprietor. INTER-OCEAN HOTEL , Oheyenne , Wyoming. Flrat-clsca , Fine argo Sampla Rooms , one block from depot. Trains stop front 20 minutes to 2 hours for dinner. Frte BtH to and from Depot. Rates $2.60 , ? Z CO and J3.00 , Recording to room ; s'ngte meal 75 cents. A 1) . n A LOOM , Proprietor. W BORUE.V. Cnlef Clerz mlO-t AGENTS WANTED FOR OUR NEW BOOK , ' 'Bible for the Youii , M Bein ; the story of the Scriptures by Rev. Oeo. Alexander Crooi , D. D. in simple and attrac tive language for old and joung. Hrnfuaely illustrated , nakmi ; a mo't interesting and im pressive youth's instructor. Ever" parent will secure this work. Pieacherg , jou should cir- culatel' . Price $3 00. Sen"1 for circulars with extr erms. J. H. CHAMBERS & U > . J St. Louis , Mo Continues to Koar for Moores ( ) HARNESS & SADDLERY , 03 03a ao * eCO CO T-t 03 I have adopted the Lion as a Trade Mark , and all my Goods will be stamp ed with the Lion and my Name on the same. No Goods are genuine without the above stamps. The beat material is used and the moat skilled workman are employed , and at the lowest cash price. Anyone wishing price list ot goods will confer a favor by ' sending for one. DAVID SMITH MOOEE. VAN CAMP , M. D. K. L. SISOLVI , M. D. NEBRASKA MEDICAL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE , PRIVATE HOSPITAL. Now open for the reception of pa ientg for the TREATMENT OF ALL CHRONIC AND SUBOI CAL DISEASES. DBS. VAX CAMP & SIGGINS , Physicians & Surgeons , Proprietors. ODD El LOWS BLOCK CORNER I4TH DODGE MS. , OMAHA. NEB- A. W. NASON. 3D E ITO ? ! S T , OTTIO : Jacob's B ck , con.er CipUo ITS , and Uta Street. Omaha' eb BID I THE NEW YORK GLuTHINC HOUSE / Has Eemoved to 1309 FARNHAM STREET , ( Max Meyer's Old Stand. ) Where They Shall Keep Constantly on Hand an Immense Stock of MEN'S , BOFS'AAD CHILDREN'S CLOTH LVG , HATS , CAPS MD GENT'S FURNISHING GOODS. f PEIOES ALWAYS THE LOWEST. -Call and Examine Goods and Prices. " TEL. Ml. I IVC. IPIE V 1309 Faniham Street , Omaha , V MORE POPULAR THAN EVER. The Genuine SINGER NEW FAMILY SEWING MACHINE. the public. In 1878 we sold 836,422 Machines. In 1879 we sold 431,187 Machines. Excess ever any previous year 74,736 Machines. Our sales laat year were at the rate of over 1400 Sewing Machines a Day I For tT ry bn lne day la tba year , Tha llr"J TJ-i--t-i-it -e'r" That Bvery REAL Singer f8 the Strongest , Singer Sewing Machine - SImPleSt' tbe Most chine haa this Trade . ' Mark cast into the Durable Sewing Ma- Iron Stand and em- chine ever yet Con- bedded in the Ann of strnoted' . ' the Machine. THE SINGER MANUFACTURING GO. Principal Office : t4 "Union Square , New York. 1,500 Subordinate Offices , in the "United States and Canada , and 3,000 Offices in the Old World and South America. epl6-d&wtf lANOSlORCANS. CT. S. "WIRIG-IHIT , AGENFTOR CHICKERINC PIANO , And Sole Agent Tor HaUet Davis & Co , , James & Holmstrom , and J. & G. Fischer's Pianos , also Sole Agent for the Estey , Burdett , and the Fort Wayne Organ Go's , Organs , Ij deal in Pianoa and Organs exclusively. Have had yeara experience in the Business , and handle only the Beat. J. S. WRIGHT , 21816th Street , City Hall Building Omaha , iVeb. HALSBT V. PITOH. Tuner. DOUBLE AND SINGLE ACTING POWER ANO Steam Pumps , Engine Trimmings , Mining Machinery BELTING HOSE , BRASS AND IRON FITTINGS , FIFE , STEAM PA8KISC AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. HALLADAY WIND-MILLS , CHURCH AND SCHOOL 8 LL A T. . STRANft. 206 Ftimhim RtT at Omaha. tt h J. A. W A K E F I E L D. WHOLESALE A3D RETAIL DEALER IN LUMBER , LATH , SHINGLES , Pickets , Sash , Doors , Blinds , Mouldings , Lime , Cement , Plaster , &c. STATE AGENT FOR MILWAUKEE CEMENT CO. , Near Union Pacific Depot. OMAHA , NEB. o J. B. DETWILL . . , , , THE CARPET MAN , Has Removed From His Old Stand on Douglas St. , to His NEW AND ELEGANT STORE , 1313Fapnham Where He Will be Pleased to Meet all His Old ? Patrons.